Pro-Life Group Blasts U.S. Army for Presentation Calling Pro-Life Americans Terrorists
Another pro-life group has condemned the U.S. Army for its presentation calling pro-life Ameicans terrorists.
As LifeNews.com reported, Journalist Sam Shoemate exposed the terrorism briefing on X (Twitter) that was held at Fort Liberty (Bragg) yesterday where they listed several Pro-Life organizations as “terrorist organizations.”
The slide was clearly offensive to the majority of Americans who are pro-life and a pro-life group depicted in it has condemned it.
Now, Operaton Rescue, which was also included in the terrorism slide, has condemned it.
“Apparently, the creator of the slide was unaware of what the vast majority of Americans know – the U.S. Supreme Court agreed with Operation Rescue’s opposition to the 1973 case and completely overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022,” it told LifeNews.com in a statement.
“The person who created the slide was obviously uninformed and could not even manage to correctly spell the word Roe,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. Fort Liberty was extremely irresponsible to allow this nonsense into its training material. It’s absurd when you consider that we are like-minded in our work. We are all working to save innocent lives. Our fight, which, of course, is done through peaceful, legal means, just starts earlier – from the moment of conception.
“It is utterly ridiculous that Operation Rescue and other groups that work to defend innocent babies would be put in the same category as groups like the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda that carried out the September 11 attacks.”
WRAL News of Raleigh, North Carolina, interviewed Operation Rescue’s Anne Reed concerning the slide (click on image below to watch). WRAL also interviewed a Fort Liberty representative by phone who stated these presentations typically take place every 2-3 weeks. It is, therefore, unclear how many times this slide was used before a whistleblower made it public. Though Fort Liberty released a statement explaining its mistake, it stopped short of an apology.
The training, according to Fort Liberty’s statement, was provided to soldiers who would be manning entry points. “Pro-life organizations have absolutely nothing to do with those responsibilities,” said Newman, “therefore, the only perceived purpose for disparaging pro-life organizations in such a training would be to satisfy a political agenda and indoctrinate our soldiers. It is truly a disgrace and clearly violates the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which limits the powers of the U.S. government to use the military to enforce domestic policies.
“It is a shame that the proper authorities were either not aware of the slide or allowed it to be included in multiple trainings,” asserted Newman, “We await an answer, after Fort Liberty’s investigation is complete, that assures us this will not happen again!”
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The military facility has since walked back the slide with a post on X (Twitter).
“After conducting a commander’s inquiry, we determined that the slides presented on social media were not vetted by the appropriate approval authorities, and do not reflect the views of the XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Liberty, the U.S. Army or the Department of Defense,” the post said. Mr. Shoemate told his readers on X to “keep in mind they’re not labeling them as extremist organizations , but as terrorist organizations.”
“These slides will no longer be used, and all future training products will be reviewed to ensure they align with the current DoD anti-terrorism guidance,” said the fort in its post.
The slide was clearly offensive to the majority of Americans who are pro-life and a pro-life group depicted in it has condemned it.
“The slide you see here followed right after a slide about ISIS, a terror group in the Middle East,” Shoemate explained. “The organizations labeled by the army as terror organizations include National Right to Life and Operation Rescue.”
“They also included a screenshot of a license plate with “IM4IT,” which is a plate many Pro-Life citizens put on their car which implies normal citizens are terrorists if they display this plate,” Shoemate elaborated.
“The slide goes on to mention activities which these organizations participate in which include being Pro-Life, opposing Roe v Wade, demonstrating and protesting (a 1st Amendment protected right), “Truth Displays,” and picketing,” he continued. “They also falsely attribute the bombing of abortion clinics to National Right to Life.”
“Keep in mind they’re not labeling them as extremist organizations (which would still be crazy), but as terrorist organizations,” Shoemate said. “The military and Dept of Defense are insanely out of control. Service-members are being indoctrinated to view Pro-Life groups as the enemy.”
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The presentation and the slide accusing pro-life groups and pro-life Americans of being terrorists was quickly condemned by pro-life Congressman Elise Stefanik.
“The Biden Administration’s Department of Defense is allegedly attempting to teach our service members that pro-life organizations in America are “terrorist groups,” she said on X in response, and called on top political and military officials to condemn the presentation and slide.
“This is despicable. @POTUS, @SecDef, and @SecArmy, must immediately condemn and open an investigation into this vile and dangerous attempted indoctrination of our service members,” she said.
This is not the first time that peaceful pro-life Americans have been called terrorists.
A database funded by the federal government and run by a research group at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) recently labeled Students for Life of America (SFLA) as a “terrorist group.”
UMD’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) operates the research database known as Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS).
According to The College Fix, PIRUS “purportedly tracks ‘ideologically motivated criminal activity’ and known ‘extremists’ through 2021.”
“[T]wo Students for Life of America members who were arrested for writing ‘black pre-born lives matter’ on a sidewalk in 2020 are recorded in PIRUS,” the Fix reported. “This puts them among white supremacists, jihadist groups, and other threats.”
“Moreover, SFLA appears under a ‘Terrorist_Group’ label in the raw dataset,” the Fix added.
SFLA spokeswoman Kristi Hamrick blasted this labeling as “an attempt to smear the reputations of peaceful students who use their free speech right to advocate for mothers and their children, born and preborn.”
“It is a highly offensive and highly suspect organization that can’t tell the difference between students with signs and actual terrorists threatening violence,” Hamrick told The Christian Post last month.
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